Jewish Studies
Waste Not
Traces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.
The Struggle for Understanding
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.
What Remains
Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.
Birth Chart
A collection of poems weaving together astrology, motherhood, music, and literary history.
The Holocaust and Masculinities
Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
A Survivor Named Trauma
Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania.
The Spiritual Transformation of Jews Who Become Orthodox
A psychological study, based on extensive interview data, of Jewish adults who take on a devout lifestyle.
The First Zionist Congress
An indispensable primary source in the history of Zionism.
Possessed Voices
Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.
Face to Face with Animals
Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.
Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism
A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.
Congress and Diaspora Politics
Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
The Infrahuman
Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.
Queer Expectations
Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.
New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures
Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.
Signatures of Struggle
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
An Archive of the Catastrophe
Comprehensive analysis of 220 hours of outtakes that impels us to reexamine our assumptions about a crucial Holocaust documentary.
Storytelling
An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.
The Tragedy of Optimism
Complete collection of Schwarzschild’s essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.
The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.
Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project
An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.
Cities of Refuge
Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
The Full Pomegranate
Translations of selected poems by the Yiddish writer, covering the entire breadth of his career.